Overview
- President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a Cabinet session for January 5, saying it is important that changes continue.
- Zelensky said he met Denys Shmyhal on January 3 and proposed shifting him from defense minister to first vice prime minister and minister of energy.
- On January 2, Zelensky proposed that First Vice Prime Minister and Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov become minister of defense.
- Zelensky said Kyrylo Budanov accepted his offer to lead the Presidential Office, and he named Oleg Ivashchenko to head the Main Intelligence Directorate, with a new foreign intelligence chief to be decided soon.
- The energy portfolio has been vacant since November 19 after parliament dismissed the energy and justice ministers during an NABU probe, and the proposed appointments still require procedural approvals.